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The Elephant Must Hang

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Author thereisaspoon
Tags author:thereisaspoon palabra race unrated
Created 2012-11-28
Last Modified 2012-11-28
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Description Pillaring stocks at the gallows-tree docks,
the crowd grew impatient, as the clouds threatened rain,
Elephant arrived at the Constable's side,
with her trunk locked in shackles, and her ankles in chains

"All rise, all rise, his Honor presides,"
the Judge took the bench to the village brass cavalcade,
Elephant refused to swear the oath, said,
"I don't know anything about truth,
but I know falsehood when I see it,
and it looks like this whole world you've made"

Now, down on his marrow, for this old fool to pray,
"Lord, for sixty-so years I'd surrendered my love,
to emblems of kindness, and not the kindness they were emblems of,
trammels and rings, with the strength of old strings,
and some hobble skirt spring, by the old problem caught,
Children, sometimes I think all our thoughts are just things,
and sometimes think things are just thoughts,"
and the rabble rang:

Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!

"My trial can no more determine my lot,
than can driftwood determine the ocean's waves,
Brandish your ropes and your boards, and your basket-hilt swords,
but what is there can punish like a conscience ignored?
Yes, my body did just as you implied,
while some ghost we'll call "I" idly watched through its eyes,"
and the jury sang:

Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!
Hang! the Elephant must hang! the Elephant must hang!

I feel it stealing now
alladrift fathoms dowm

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Godless
2013-01-07

I enjoy this kind of race-making.

1211
2012-11-28

A bit faster.

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Xerces
2012-11-28

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...a bit faster- i cant seem to break 200 but im sure its possible...

...also that was a sweet and very flowy/technical AGD you submitted there spoon...
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Xerces
2012-11-28

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...lol im so excited, i got this speed run first try no lie hahah...
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thereisaspoon
2012-11-28

agd

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